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The Nobel Prize for Literature

March 29th 2007 12:03

Sully Prudhomme, winner of the first Nobel Prize for Literature

Orhan Pamuk

Unlike other big literature prizes, the Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to authors, not books, and recognises the entire body of work from a writer rather than a singular novel. As such, it is impossible for any author to win more than once. The Nobel Prize for Literature is one of the few truly international prizes for writing, and is based in Sweden. Winners of the prize are known as Nobel Laureates.

Sully Prudhomme – France (1901)
Theodor Mommsen – Germany (1902)
Bjornstjerne Bjornson – Norway (1903)
Frederic Mistral – France (1904)
Jose Echewgaray – Spain (1904)
Henryk Sienkiewicz – Poland (1905)
Giosue Carducci – Italy (1906)
Rudyard Kipling – United Kingdom (1907)
Rudolf Christoph Eucken – Germany (1908)
Selma Lagerlof – Sweden (1909)
Paul Heyse – Germany (1910)
Count Maurice Maeterlinck – Belgium (1911)

Gerhart Hauptmann – Germany (1912)
Rabindranath Tagore – India (1913)
Romain Rolland – France (1915)
Verner Von Heidenstam – Sweden (1916)
Karl Adolph Gjellerup – Denmark (1917)
Henrik Pontoppidan – Denmark (1917)
Carl Spitteler – Switzerland (1919)
Knut Hamsun – Norway (1920)
Anatole France – France (1921)
Jacinto Benavente – Spain (1922)
William Butler Yeats – Ireland (1923)
Wladyslaw Reymont – Poland (1924)
George Bernard Shaw – Ireland (1925)
Grazia Deledda – Italy (1926)
Henri Bergson – France (1927)
Sigrid Undset – Norway (1928)
Thomas Mann – Germany (1929)
Sinclair Lewis – United States of America (1930)
Erik Axel Karlfeldt – Sweden (1931)
John Galsworthy – United Kingdom (1932)
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin – Soviet Union (1933)
Luigi Pirandello – Italy (1934)
Eugene O’Neill – United States of America (1936)
Roger Martin du Gard – France (1937)
Pearl S. Buck – United States of America (1938)
Frans Eemil Sillanpaa – Finland (1939)
Johannes Wilhelm Jensen – Denmark (1944)
Gabriela Mistral – Chile (1945)
Hermann Hesse – Switzerland (1946)
Andre Gide – France (1947)
T. S. Eliot – United States of America (1948)
William Faulkner – United States of America (1949)
Bertrand Russell – United Kingdom (1950)
Par Lagerkvist – Sweden (1951)
Francois Mauriac – France (1952)
Sir Winston Churchill – United Kingdom (1953)
Ernest Hemingway – United States of America (1954)
Halldor Laxness – Iceland (1955)
Juan Ramon Jimenez – Spain (1956)
Albert Camus – France (1957)
Boris Pasternak – Soviet Union (1958) Declined prize.
Salvatore Quasimodo – Italy (1959)
Saint-John Perse – France (1960)
Ivo Andric –Yugoslavia (1961)
John Steinbeck – United States of America (1962)
Giorgos Seferis – Greece (1963)
Jean-Paul Sartre – France (1964) Declined prize.
Michail Sholokhov – Soviet Union (1965)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon – Israel (1966)
Nelly Sachs – Germany (1966)
Miguel Angel Asturias – Guatemala (1967)
Yasunari Kawabata – Japan (1968)
Samuel Beckett – Ireland (1969)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Soviet Union (1970)
Pablo Neruda – Chile (1971)
Heinrich Boll – Germany (1972)
Patrick White – Australia (1973)
Eyvind Johnson – Sweden (1974)
Harry Martinson – Sweden (1974)
Eugenio Montale – Italy (1975)
Saul Bellow – Canada (1976)
Vicente Aleixandre – Spain (1977)
Isaac Bashevis Singer – Poland (1978)
Odyseas Elytis – Greece (1979)
Czeslaw Milosz – Poland (1980)
Elias Canetti - Bulgaria (1981)
Gabriel Garcia Marquz – Colombia (1982)
William Golding – United Kingdom (1983)
Jaroslav Seifert – Czech Republic (1984)
Claude Simon – France (1985)
Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka – Nigeria (1986)
Joseph Brodsky – Soviet Union (1987)
Naguib Mahfouz – Egypt (1988)
Camilo Jose Cela – Spain (1989)
Octavio Paz – Mexico (1990)
Nadine Gordimer – South Africa (1991)
Derek Walcott – Saint Lucia (1992)
Toni Morrison – United States of America (1993)
Kenzaburo Oe – Japan (1994)
Seamus Heaney – Ireland (1995)
Wislawa Szymborska – Poland (1996)
Dario Fo – Italy (1997)
Jose Saramago – Portugal (1998)
Gunter Grass – Germany (1999)
Gao Xingjian – China (2000)
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul – Trinidad and Tobago (2002)
Imre Kertesz – Hungary (2002)
John Maxwell Coetzee – South Africa (2003)
Elfriede Jelinek – Austria (2004)
Harold Pinter – United Kingdom (2005)
Orhan Pamuk – Turkey (2006)

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